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Dotfonter
Create TTF fonts from dot matrix descriptions.
References and Links
ISO/IEC 14496-22:2015(E) OpenType, standardized as Open Font Format. Since OTF shares many details with TTF, this covers many details. The link is to the ISO/IEC directory of free standards, search that page for 14496-22 and collect everything that seems relevant.
TrueType according to Apple The TrueType Reference Manual from Apple. It covers most details of TTF, with strong recommendations for keeping Apple systems happy.
OpenType according to Microsoft All things OpenType, references, links, and recommendations.
Tools
TTX is both an XML dialect and a tool that translates between it and TTF files. It supports all of the important tables, and handles any it doesn't support with hex dumps. Useful for seeing how some trick was done in a commercial font, and this will be our path to creating a TTF from scratch.
Fret
is one of many tools from SIL that work with TTF fonts. It is a
reporting tool that dumps the glyf table in graphical form coupled
with information from the cmap and related tables to describe each
glyph in the font and its mapping.
License
Copyright (C) 2015 Cheshire Engineering Corp.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.